Thursday, May 28, 2009

Perak political saga to drag on in courts ... till September

By Debra Chong and Edward Cheah

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 ?The political crisis in Perak triggered by the crossover of three state lawmakers in early February looks set to stretch out into the rest of the year.

The High Court here today fixed September 4 on whether it should hear two lawsuits filed against the Election Commission (EC) to force it to hold by-elections in three state seats.

It also set May 28 for the mention date, which is to give the various parties suing and being sued time to file in their Streamyx legal documents to the court.



Basically, this is just another expression for sms dictionary, or sms shortcut. These abbreviations are Streamyx the text messaging shortcuts that people use each and every day to make sending sms text messages so much quicker and easier. Some of the shortcuts below are only used for instant messenger messages, or at the end of a text message to convey the mood of the person sending the text message. Some of the txt msg shortcuts are good examples of how people shorten words when they send text messages.

So let's take a look at some common text message abbreviations, then.

SMS Text Messaging Abbreviations:


Anything Streamyx NTHING
Are you OK Streamyx RUOK?
Are - R
Ate - 8
Be - B
Before - B4
Be seeing you - BCNU
Cutie - QT
Date - D8
Dinner - DNR
Easy - EZ
Eh? - A?
Excellent - XLNT
Fate - F8
For - 4
For your information - FYI
Great - GR8
Late - L8
Later - L8R
Lots of love/laughs - Lol
Love - LUV
Mate - M8
Please - PLS
Please call me - PCM
Queue/cue - Q
Rate - R8
See/sea - C
See you later - CU L8R
Speak - SPK
Tea - T
Thanks - THX
Thank you - THNQ
To/too - 2
To be - 2B
Today - 2DAY
Tomorrow - 2MORO
Want to - WAN2
What - WOT
Work - WRK
Why - Y
You - U
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Happy/Smiley - :-)
Angry - :-||
Very happy - :-))
Confused - %-)
Tongue Streamyx - :-&
Sad - :-(
Saintly - O:-)
Laughing - :-D
Crying - :'-(
Surprised/shocked - :-O
Screaming - :-@
Kiss - :-*
Pig - :@)
Clown - *:-)
Wink - ;-)

There are more sms shortcuts that could make Streamyx a so-called sms dictionary, but the more words you use the Streamyx effective the shortcuts are as people stop understanding what you're Streamyx saying.

In this case, a short 'vocabulary' is best so everyone knows what is being said.

Okay. Now it's test time. Let's see if you can understand this sentence made up of some of the text message abbreviations above, then:

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